Abstract Quote by Le Corbusier

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

— Karl Marx

The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual…

— Henry Ford

“Well the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter - leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

— Mark Zuckerberg

“To understand the dominating role played by technics in modern civilization….one must explain the culture that was ready to use them and profit by…

— Lewis Mumford

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it…

— Henry Ford

“From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and…

— George Orwell

“Mankind made machines in his own likeness, and used them for his delight and service. The machines had no soul or they had no…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the…

— Clarence Darrow

A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without…

— Maurice Wilkes

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

— Havelock Ellis

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork…

— Friedrich Nietzsche